{"id":1623,"date":"2009-02-04T03:52:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T08:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2009-02-04T03:52:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T08:52:54","slug":"shall-i-experience-this-experience-or-record-it-to-share-with-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/shall-i-experience-this-experience-or-record-it-to-share-with-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall I experience this experience or record it to share with others?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday February 4, 2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A publicist friend just returned from a trip to India, and she had posted short notes all during the trip at www.twitter.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I sent\u00a0 Kim<\/a> a message that I adored reading her Twitter posts on her trip; that had she blogged about it, I would have enjoyed that, too.\u00a0 Always the dilemma as a journalist, isn’t it: shall I experience this experience or record it for everyone else to experience through me?<\/p>\n

Which gives the greater benefit, me enjoying the experience, or me recording the experience to share with others and enjoy later?<\/p>\n

Which is more important to be able to accurately record and recall?\u00a0 The words verbatim of a speaker, or the feeling that burst forth within me as I heard them, and the insights that came later as a result of them?<\/p>\n

How much of the atmosphere and ambience is crucial to me arriving at an understanding of the event?\u00a0 Thus how much of that do I need to share with the reader?\u00a0 What will I be missing by taking detailed notes about the decor and seating arrangement, the nuances of the music or talk I hear?<\/p>\n

This is a dilemma only because I choose to make it so.\u00a0 Once again, it is only ever about my own perception and how I respond to it.<\/p>\n

THE DOWNSIDE OF MY WORK BEING MY PLAY<\/strong>
\nCan there be a downside?<\/em> Only if I think there is.\u00a0 In the early 90’s, back in the beginning of Horizons Magazine<\/a>, I began going to all the conferences and hearing all the big name speakers, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Abraham-Hicks, Marianne Williamson, Ram Dass.<\/p>\n

I used to be a real note taker.\u00a0 I always had a notebook and pen in my pocket, and would make note of everything I heard that struck a chord in me.\u00a0 When I began going to so many conferences and events, I took massive notes, and that helped me to later report accurately what I’d heard and what I thought the speaker’s message was.<\/p>\n

After a half dozen years of doing that, I began to feel burned out on the journalist\/reporting aspect of the events.\u00a0 I wanted to just go and attend and listen and not have to take notes.\u00a0 After a few failed attempts at disciplining myself, the Universe decided to step in and make it easy for me.\u00a0 A car accident in 2000 took my paws out of commission for several months and it took about a year to hold a pen or paintbrush again for any length of time.\u00a0 So I ended up getting my wish – getting to attend and listen to speakers without having to take notes.<\/p>\n

Then for several years I got burned out on going to conferences at all.\u00a0 I’d been in the genre for so long that no one seemed to be saying anything new except Abraham-Hicks<\/a>.\u00a0 My problem wasn’t that there was nothing new on the scene, my problem was that I was forgetting that it took me 40 years to come to know what I know.\u00a0 It took me that many years of soaking up study to really “get it.”\u00a0 So it was easy for me to forget that although I may get tired of the 101 work, maybe everyone else needed to hear it over and over again, in a different way, from different speakers.\u00a0 I sure did.<\/p>\n

Now, years later, I have gotten over myself and am enjoying attending conferences once again.\u00a0 Whether I’m listening or note taking, I am doing in the moment whatever I am meant to do.<\/p>\n

And that’s always enough.<\/p>\n

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